In this beautiful book Diane Cole Ahl provides a definitive account of the life and work of Renaissance artist Benozzo Gozzoli. Focusing on the social and cultural context of Gozzoli`s time, Ahl assesses his artistic output, including many works unknown until now. She examines his prowess as portraitist, landscape painter, and creator of sacred narrative and reveals much about the ways in which Renaissance art was created, commissioned, and experienced.

Benozzo Gozzoli

Arts & Photography

Ahl, Diane Cole

Individual Artists

Yale University Press

An expansive new study that explores the wide breadth of Italian painting in the fifteenth century &nbsp; Painting in Fifteenth-Century Italy: This Splendid and Noble Art is a transformational study that introduces groundbreaking approaches and discoveries. Challenging the traditional focus on Venice, Florence, and Rome, the lively narrative traverses the peninsula from north to south and culminates in the global ports of Naples and Sicily. It reappraises the careers and collaborations of painters, some little-known today. With greater frequency than previously imagined, these masters traveled widely to seek professional opportunities and expand their artistic horizons. Through such journeys, they engaged with local visual culture as well as the art of antiquity, Byzantium, Spain, and northern Europe. &nbsp; New findings by conservators elucidate the varied techniques, precious materials, and brilliant colors of the works. With nearly 200 colour illustrations, some specially commissioned, Painting in Fifteenth-Century Italy reveals the richness, invention, and dynamic crosscurrents of the century's art.

Painting in Fifteenth-Century Italy: This Splendid and Noble Art

History & Criticism

First published in 2000, Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy: Ritual, Spectacle, Image was the first book to consider the role of Italian confraternities in the patronage of art. Eleven interdisciplinary essays analyze confraternal painting, sculpture, architecture, and dramatic spectacles by documenting the unique historical and ritual contexts in which they were experienced. Exploring the evolution of devotional practices, the roles of women and youths, the age's conception of charity, and the importance of confraternities in civic politics and urban design, this book offers illuminating approaches to one of the most dynamic forms of corporate patronage in early modern Italy.

Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy: Ritual, Spectacle, Image

Wisch, Barbara

Cambridge University Press

Fra Angelico

George Newnes

First published in 2000, Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy: Ritual, Spectacle, Image was the first book to consider the role of Italian confraternities in the patronage of art. Eleven interdisciplinary essays analyze confraternal painting, sculpture, architecture, and dramatic spectacles by documenting the unique historical and ritual contexts in which they were experienced. Exploring the evolution of devotional practices, the roles of women and youths, the age's conception of charity, and the importance of confraternities in civic politics and urban design, this book offers illuminating approaches to one of the most dynamic forms of corporate patronage in early modern Italy.

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Benozzo Gozzoli

Painting in Fifteenth-Century Italy: This Splendid and Noble Art

Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy: Ritual, Spectacle, Image

Fra Angelico

Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy: Ritual, Spectacle, Image